Saturday, January 23, 2021

Politics
- Politics
  
  Watch: Taking offence at Jai Shree Ram slogans, Mamata Banerjee walks off stage even as PM Modi and Bengal Governor look on
  
  OpIndia Staff - 23 January, 2021
  
  Mamata Banerjee who was sharing the stage with PM Modi, lamented "being disrespected" because she heard Jai Shree Ram slogans
  
  News Reports
  
  Even as ‘masked man’ Yogesh says he was tortured by farmers to lie about murder plot, Rakesh Tikait blames central govt
  
  OpIndia Staff - 23 January, 2021
  
  The Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) spokesperson Rakesh Tikait also alleged that a conspiracy has been hatched to kill four of them and create disturbances during their tractor rally.
  
  News Reports
  
  AAP MLA Somnath Bharti sentenced to 2 years in jail for assaulting AIIMS staff, soon gets bail from High Court
  
  OpIndia Staff - 23 January, 2021
  
  A Delhi Court had found AAP MLA Somnath Bharti guilty of manhandling security personnel at the AIIMS and sentenced him thereof
  
  News Reports
  
  ‘Liberals’ propagate scripted drama of ‘plot to murder farmers’ even as ‘masked man’ says he was tortured by farmer leaders to lie
  
  OpIndia Staff - 23 January, 2021
  
  A raft of liberals took to social media websites to spread the lies peddled by the masked man, now identified as Yogesh Singh
  
  Fact-Check
  
  How Congress spread lies about a woman being beaten up by goons in ‘lawless UP’ while the police did nothing: Read what really happened
  
  OpIndia Staff - 23 January, 2021
  
  Recently, a video of a pleading lady requesting UP Police officers to save her from two assailants was doing the rounds on the internet.
Opinions
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  NCB busts drug racket based out of Pakistan and Sri Lanka after seizing heroin worth Rs 1,000 crore from a boat
  
  OpIndia Staff - 22 January, 2021
  
  NCB and the Indian Coast Guard had intercepted a vessel near the Tuticorin Port and found 95.87 kg of heroin in November 2020
  
  Opinions
  
  Temples under attack in Andhra Pradesh: Hindus must be granted autonomy and the chance to defend themselves from external attacks
  
  Sai Priya Chodavarapu - 22 January, 2021
  
  The recent series of temple vandalism incidents across Andhra Pradesh have left Hindus all over the country horrified and shaken.
  
  Media
  
  Left-wing fury at Vir Sanghvi shows just how much ‘liberals’ hate Hindus
  
  Abhishek Banerjee - 22 January, 2021
  
  Vir Sanghvi published a column about the ‘shameful persecution’ of Munawar Faruqui and the ‘bogus controversy’ around Tandav
  
  Opinions
  
  Farm Laws 2020: The need of the hour is balanced liberalization, to move beyond rigid ideologies
  
  Dr. Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar - 21 January, 2021
  
  A balanced liberalization, based on the triad of truth, efficiency and compassion, may find a better tomorrow
  
  Opinions
  
  Those who blamed Modi for market crashes must congratulate him for Sensex at 50,000
  
  Abhishek Banerjee - 21 January, 2021
  
  As market crosses 50,000 points, will those who blame him for crashes credit him for bullish trend?
Fact-Check
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  Fact-Check
  
  How Congress spread lies about a woman being beaten up by goons in ‘lawless UP’ while the police did nothing: Read what really happened
  
  OpIndia Staff - 23 January, 2021
  
  Recently, a video of a pleading lady requesting UP Police officers to save her from two assailants was doing the rounds on the internet.
  
  Fact-Check
  
  Here is the truth about the images where medical officers from Karnataka were seen ‘faking’ Coronavirus vaccination for a picture
  
  OpIndia Staff - 22 January, 2021
  
  Did medical officers in Karnataka fake vaccination for camera? Congress makes damaging fake claims to undermine fight against Coronavirus
  
  News Reports
  
  Has the govt increased interest rate on Kisan Credit Card loan from 7% to 12%
  
  OpIndia Staff - 21 January, 2021
  
  The Press Information Bureau has 'fact-checked' the claims made by some media portals that interest on Kisan Credit Card loan has been increased.
  
  Political Fact-Check
  
  Rahul Gandhi lies to claim PM Modi has no geopolitical understanding, Surjewala declares himself Joe Biden
  
  OpIndia Staff - 19 January, 2021
  
  Rahul Gandhi lied that PM Modi had endorsed Donald Trump's candidature for the 2020 US presidential elections
Media
- Media
  
  ‘Journalist’ Uday Rana uses filthy language sitting next to a woman, then ‘complains’ about the woman not talking to him
  
  OpIndia Staff - 23 January, 2021
  
  'Journalist' Uday Rana whines that a lady on the fight with him did not acknowledge his "colourful" conversations
  
  News Reports
  
  India sees Yogi Adityanath as PM Modi’s successor, Rahul Gandhi stands nowhere: Survey
  
  OpIndia Staff - 23 January, 2021
  
  As per the India Today Mood of the Nation survey, Rahul Gandhi virtually is no challenge to PM Narendra Modi
  
  News Reports
  
  TRP row: Times Network ‘contemplates’ to sue BARC, alleges ‘large scale manipulation’ to help Republic TV
  
  OpIndia Staff - 23 January, 2021
  
  Times Network alleges that BARC officials had 'manually reduced' the ratings of Times Now to help Republic TV
  
  Sports
  
  #BanSportsTak: Netizens angry after India Today owned sports channel claims Virat Kohli suffers from ‘disorder’
  
  OpIndia Staff - 22 January, 2021
  
  "It is a disorder for a captain to (be as aggressive as Virat Kohli). It might be acceptable for a player to have this aggression (but nor for a captain)," the journalist claimed.
  
  News Reports
  
  Roasting Raghuram Rajan, talking about economic upswing, forced conversion to Islam and Christianity: Rakesh Jhunjhunwala bursts ‘liberal’ bubble
  
  OpIndia Staff - 22 January, 2021
  
  The big bull Rakesh Jhunjhunwala was uninhibited his in his freewheeling interview with The Print founder Shekhar Gupta
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  Pune restaurant launches ‘Bullet Thali’ challenge: Eat a 4 kg platter in 60 mins to win a Royal Enfield bike
  
  OpIndia Staff - 22 January, 2021
  
  The Pune restaurant owner conceptualised the 'Bullet Thali' challenge to bounce back after his business incurred huge losses amid the coronavirus pandemic
  
  News Reports
  
  Microsoft files a patent to bring back dead loved ones as ‘chatbots’ from their digital data
  
  OpIndia Staff - 22 January, 2021
  
  Microsoft has reportedly filed a patent that would allow it to built a chatbot mirroring human beings based on their digital data.
  
  Editor's picks
  
  Bernie Sanders and his mittens during Biden inauguration trigger a meme fest on social media. Details
  
  OpIndia Staff - 21 January, 2021
  
  The US Senator from Vermont was spotted at the venue wearing parka and a pair of very homely looking mittens at the high profile event.
  
  Social Media
  
  In 2013, NCERT had admitted they have no documents to back claims on Qutab Minar made in textbooks
  
  OpIndia Staff - 19 January, 2021
  
  NCERT's reply to a 2013 RTI query says they have no documents or epigraphic evidence to back the claims made regarding the Qutab Minar in their history textbook.
Specials
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  Farmers threatened to kill if Yogesh didn’t lie and implicate Haryana police, said have already killed others: Watch exclusive confession of ‘masked man’
  
  OpIndia Staff - 23 January, 2021
  
  A person identified as Yogesh, who was detained by the Haryana police on Friday said the farmers at Singhu border threatened to kill him
  
  Media
  
  The hidden chats in the TRP Chargesheet that nobody is talking about, not even the police: India Today and BARC
  
  OpIndia Staff - 19 January, 2021
  
  In the TRP case chargesheet, pages of personal chats between Arnab Goswami and the ex-BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta have been added
  
  OpIndia Explains
  
  The vaccine diplomacy: The next battleground between India and China to dominate the global COVID-19 vaccine requirements
  
  Jinit Jain - 18 January, 2021
  
  With apprehensions surrounding Chinese vaccines swelling, India has taken a lead in helping the world to combat coronavirus with its indigenously developed COVID-19 vaccines
  
  News Reports
  
  They’re paying someone in Taloja to torture him till he names Arnab, he’s on death bed: Ex-BARC CEO family speak up, file affidavit
  
  OpIndia Staff - 16 January, 2021
  
  Days after they arrested BARC COO Romil Ramgarhia, they arrested BARC former CEO Partho Dasgupta on the 25th of December 2020.
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Haryana Police confirms that the ‘masked man’ was forced by farmer union leaders to make false allegations against police

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#BanSportsTak: Netizens angry after India Today owned sports channel claims Virat Kohli suffers from ‘disorder’

OpIndia Staff - 22 January, 2021

"It is a disorder for a captain to (be as aggressive as Virat Kohli). It might be acceptable for a player to have this aggression (but nor for a captain)," the journalist claimed.

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Rajdeep Sardesai ‘baffled’ by India Today survey that shows Modi govt winning a sweeping majority if elections held today: Details

OpIndia Staff - 22 January, 2021

Taking to Twitter, Sardesai said that he was 'baffled' to see that despite the economic hardships resulted by the pandemic, Indians still love the Modi government.

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